Well they are the mirror image, they are just repeated twice. He just cut out the right side until it started getting covered by the sword man, mirrored it, duplicated it and made it smaller to look like they are further. No skill involved at all in that. He didn't even matched the sailors with the shadows in the ground. Its a nice idea, but no skill involved at all.

So you just reposted mythx21's (excellent) image as a different link on imgur, and claim it as your own, huh? (There are absolutely no differences between the images at all, something that wouldn't happen if you were just repeating it.).

I bit my tongue when you made this post earlier saying that the leading entry this week would take the same amount of skill as the other three entries the other poster was referring to (one of which happened to be mine and was a composite of manydifferentimages).

For you to come here and belittle someone else's work when you've not offered anything yourself is completely out of line, however.

We've attracted ourselves a genuine troll, ladies and gentlemen! And not even just a raging bag of swear words who thinks trolling is telling people that hitler did nothing wrong! Someone who is dedicated to seeming like their rationale is in fact rational.
Please remember to view only from official viewing stations, and remember, don't feed it!

On a side note, I can't quite recall all the details, but wasn't someone named Laurelai going around causing massive amounts of genuinely concerning trouble a while ago? Because if so, lalarilalai is a mildly suspicious name. But hey, let's not go into conspiracy theories, the similarity is minimal.

but you have no room to critique and hate on other people because of their comments. They have a point and so do you. You aren't proving anything by ripping on other people.

The OP has more skill than i do in photoshop so to me, this requires a lot of skill. Not everyone knows how to use photoshop so kudos to this guy for doing a good job. Its a good job so maybe just appreciate it for once and quit critiquing it. its currently the #1 comment.

See, that's the problem, I wasn't hating on his work. Some guy said it was extremely hard to achieve, and I disagreed. People took it the wrong way and things started escalating. And although he is the first comment, he's not the one with the most up votes.

A good effort, but you could use some practice. The colouring is a little flat, you might have been better with a different layer mode. The hat's also a little too small to fit on his head, and probably a bit too vibrant too. A bit less contrast and brightness would sort it out pretty well, accompanied with proper scaling.
Even so, you've got a good idea and it's executed cleanly, at least. That's a lot more than I can say for some of these submissions.
edit: Here's a good example (scarily similar!)

Would there be any way of promoting the battle more after the no-voting period is over?

I think half the problem is that it falls off the front page pretty fast, which means that a lot of the people who haven't submitted to the battle itself aren't seeing it and you're not getting the non-partisan votes. (Although I'm sure you guys are well aware of this; the promotion in the top right corner for example is a great step in the right direction).

It's just quite frustrating when you've put hours into an entry, only for it to fall into obscurity.

Perhaps it is my inability to understand the picture. Feedback is always useful, so I will try my best to explain why I did not agree with your picture:

Is that a hot air balloon over the general's head? What is the message behind that? Is that a reference to something? What does remain nevertheless is the fact that you need to practise the way you deliver your changes in the picture, because honestly, I cannot determine what the object you have photoshopped into that picture is. Practice makes perfect, so don't let this discourage you - rather, take it as an incentive to become better at photoshop in the future. Remember, that learning from mistakes is a lot more useful than getting it right the first time.

But - perhaps I was wrong all along, and perhaps this is an amazing photoshop result: Art is subjective, so keep that in mind. Don't let naysayers like me distract you.

The general's head IS the hot air balloon. Well the basket anyway. No message, just funny. I thought it was kind of funny and surreal the way that his head was peaking over, so I made it even more surreal. It's not just the balloon behind him. And most of the photoshop work was done rebuilding the background behind his body that I had to remove and then I was losing interest so I didn't do much else.

Also, everyone else I showed it to knew instantly that it was a hotair balloon. Is it really that hard to distinguish?

Well I was playing around with this during the week, and then came back and I probably should have realised that there would be LOTS of people doing a similar thing... Anyway, here's mine unfinished in sadness just so it doesnt go to waste.

Every week, there's a picture put up that nearly everyone on the subreddit 'shops. The winners get trophy flairs, the participants get normal flairs (like my fire one, or at least it is currently). It's also an opportunity to get tons of comment karma, since more people see this page than any other page.